24 CATALOGUE OF BIRDS FROM NEW GUINEA. 
PrILOTIS SIMILIS. 
Ptilotis similis, Homb. & Jacq. Voy. Pole Sud, t. 17. f. 2, 3. 
Hab. New Guinea (west coast) (Homb. § Jacq.). 
a, 6. Aru Islands. Procured from Mr. Wallace. 
PriLOTIS MEGARHYNCHUS. 
Ptilotis megarhynchus, G. R. Gray, Proc. Z. S. 1858, p. 174. 
3. Brown; top of head olive, with dashes of black in the middle 
of each feather; eyes surrounded with yellow; throat yellowish 
white, with minute dashes of fuscous ; breast and upper part of ab- 
domen fuscous, margined with yellowish olive; sides, abdomen and 
under tail-coverts rufous brown; under wing-coverts rufous white. 
Length 8"; wings 3" 6!" ; bill 1! 1!", 
Hab. Aru Islands (Wallace). 
PTILOTIS FUMATA. 
Ptilotis fumata, Mill. (Mus. Lugd.). 
Hab. New Guinea; River Oetanata (Miiller). 
PTILOTIS STRIOLATA. 
Ptilotis striolata, Mill. (Mus. Lugd.). 
Hab. New Guinea; River Oetanata (Miiller). 
PTILOTIS AURICULATA. 
Ptilotis auriculata, Mill. (Mus. Lugd.). 
Hab. New Guinea; Lobo (Miller). 
TROPIDORHYNCHUS MITRATUS. 
Tropidorhynchus corniculatus, Mill. Verh. Ethn. p. 21. 
Tropidorhynchus mitratus, Mill.; Sclater, Proc. L.S.vol.ii. p. 158. 
Tropidorhynchus buceroides, Gould, B. of Austr. ii. pl. 17? 
Hab. New Guinea (west coast) ; River Oetanata (Miiller). 
TROPIDORHYNCHUS NOV GUINEE. 
Tropidorhynchus nove guinea, Mill. & Schl. Verh. Ethn. p. 153. 
Hab. New Guinea (west coast) (Miller). 
a, 6. Aru Islands. Procured from Mr. Wallace. 
TROPIDORHYNCHUS PLUMIGENIS. 
Tropidorhynchus plumigenis, G. R. Gray, Proc. Z. 8. 1858, p. 174. 
Q. Differs from the former by wanting the knob on the basal 
part of culmen, and by the sides of the head beneath the eyes being 
plumed; the ends of the tail-feathers are margined with brownish 
white. 
3 juv. Blackish brown; feathers round the base of neck mar- 
gined with yellow or white. Probably a younger bird than the 
female. 
Hab. Ké Island (Wallace). 
